Fresco Collection (page 5)

Musical concert with poetess, lyre and tibia players
A musical concert. A poetess or singer sings from a small volume accompanied by a Tibicine on a tibia (double reed flute) and a Fidicine on a lyre tied to her arm with a ribbon

Music teacher or poet with a woman with comic mask
Scene from a play. A woman with comic mask hands a small volume to another woman in front of a seated music teacher or poet. Vignette of four Bacchic masks with closed mouths of buffoons and dancers

A Cabiri with shield and spear and a Cabiridae
One of the Cabiri, son of Vulcan and the nymph Cabira, with shield (scudo) and spear (hasta). The woman may be a Cabiridae, or Cybele or Hecate, but not a Bacchante

Naked youth sleeping in the shade of a tree. Perhaps Endymion, hunter or shepherd, as evidenced by the lance and dog. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum

Hylas kidnapped by the Mysian Naiads (Euneica, Malis and Nycheia), who dwelled in the spring of Pegae near lake Askanios. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum

Jupiter on clouds
Jupiter in the clouds with his symbols of a crown of oak leaves, thunderbolt, rainbow, eagle and sceptre, and Bacchus and Ariadne serenaded by Apollo on his lyre at their wedding

Six satyrs or fauns performing on a tightrope. Two carry a thyrsus, one plays a tibia, one plays a lyre, one pours wine from one vase to another, and one balances with his hands together

Depiction of Hercules fourth labour. Hercules in lion skin brings the Erymanthian boar and shows it to a terrified Eurystheus, who cowers in a storage jar or pithos

Depiction of the Trojan Horse
Trojans pulling the wooden horse into the city. Two rows of bizarrely dressed people and others wearing dog masks pull the horse with ropes

A winged Victory, soldier and trophy
Winged Victory making a trophy with a horned helmet above a tree trunk with young soldier crowned with leaves and wearing military garb that could be Greek or Roman

Bacchus with thyrsus, tripod horn and crown of leaves standing in a forest. He stands on a drunken satyr in front of a statue of Priapus

Four putti with symbols of Bacchus: cupbearer (pocillator) with urn and saucer, putto with patera (bowl) and basin (crater), one with deer over its shoulders, and one holding a dice cup

Canephorae virgin in a rite of Bacchus
Canephorae virgin with thyrsus, crown of vine leaves, and basket of fruit leading a rite of Bacchus. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum (Antichita di Ercolano)

Female dancer with box performing rites of Bacchus
Female dancer in voluminous transparent robes with a box perhaps alluding to the mysteries of Bacchus. Copperplate engraving by Tommaso Piroli from his Antiquities of Herculaneum

Kenilworth Castle, Warwickshire, as depicted on a fresco painting at Newnham Padox. Date: 1620

Boxing al Fresco Date: 1845

Hunting party picnic
An aristocratic hunting party breaks for lunch: a picnic on the grass. Date: mid 18th century

Washing up after breakfast (2 / 2)
Picture 2/2 - Following their fancy breakfast at their very well-appointed campsite (see: 13127654), the young chap has scarpered, leaving his partner and Mother left with all the washing up!!

A jolly trio enjoying a very fancy breakfast (1 / 2)
Picture 1/2 - A jolly trio (a young couple and the young ladys Mother?) enjoying a very fancy breakfast at their very well-appointed campsite, which comes complete with full china service

Card commemorating the artist Giotto (1267-1337), famed as a painter of frescos.The caption rather elegantly reads: " To you the flower of my kindest feelings." Date: 1904

Angel playing a violin, c. 1480. Melozzo da Forli (1438-1494
Melozzo da Forli (1438-1494). Italian painter. Fresco depicting an Angel playing a violin, c. 1480. From the Church of the Twelve Holy Apostles. Pinacoteca Vaticana. Vatican City

Minoan Art. La Parisienne or the Minoan Lady with the sacral knot at the back of the neck that seems to indicate that she is a priestess or even a goddess

The Delivery of the Keys, 1481-1482. By Pietro Perugino (145
Pietro Perugino (1450-1523). Italian painter. The Delivery of the Keys, 1481-1482. Lateral fresco. Sistine Chapel. Vatican Museums. Vatican City

Italy. Pompeii. House of Venus. Fresco. Garden with birds ar
Roman Art. Italy. Pompeii. House of Venus or House of D. Lucretii Satrii Valentes. Fresco. Garden with birds around the fountain and mask. 1st century. Painted wall on south wall of peristyle

Mycenaean art. Greece. Fresco of the Lady of Mycenae or the Mycenaean. 13th century B.C. It depicts a goddess. Found at Mycenae in 1970. National Archaeological Museum. Athens

Minoan art. Cyclades Islands. Naval expedition. Fresco
Minoan art. Cyclades Islands. Naval expedition. Fresh dated c.1550-1500 B.C. It comes from Akrotiri. Santorini. National Museum of Athens

Hermathena. Fresco. Italy
Hermathena. Fusion of Mercury and Athena. 16th century fresco by Federico Zuccari. Farnese Palace. Caprarola. Italy

Turkey. Istanbul. Chora Church. Parecclesion
Fresco in the Parecclesion depicting the Anastasis. Christ pulling Adam and Eve out their tombs. Entoured by the righteous kings and Saint John the Baptist, David and Solomon. 14th century

Ambrogio Lorenzetti (1280-1348). Effects of Good Government in the city. Fresco. Detail. Merchants in the walled city of Siena

Man standing holding the reins of a horse with a dog before. Fresco dated between 14th and 13th century BC. Second palace of Tiryns National Archaeological Museum. Athens. Greece

Raphael, Raffaello Santi or Sanzio, called (1483-1520). Ital
Raphael, Raffaello Santi or Sanzio, called (Urbino, 1483-Rome, 1520). Italian painter. Coronation of Charlemagne. Detail. Work commissioned by Pope Julius II in 1508 to decorate their new rooms

ITALY. Caprarola. Villa Farnese. Map of Europe. 1574 painting by Giovanni Antonio da Varese Vanosino. Stanza del Mappamondo (Geographic room or Room of the World Map). Renaissance art. Cinquecento

INDIA. Ajanta. Ajanta Caves. Cave 10. Detail of the decoration of the ceiling in the chaitya-griha with scenes from the life and incarnations of Buddha. Mural painting of the cave 2

INDIA. Ajanta. Ajanta Caves. Detail of face of Buddha in one of the Jataka reincarnations and episodes of his life. Mural painting, 6th-7th c. Hindu art. Gupta period. Fresco

PARMIGIANINO, Francesco Mazzola, called Il (1503-1540). Legend of Artemis and Actaeon. 1523. ITALY. Fontanellato. La Rocca. Detail. Greyhound. Renaissance art. Cinquecento. Fresco

Disembarkation of the Spanish at Veracruz. 1951. MEXICO. Mexico City. National Palace. Mexican Mural Painting. Fresco

INDIA. Ajanta. Ajanta Caves. Buddha preaching the Abhidharma in the Tavatimsa Celestial World. Detail. Wall painting of the cave 17. 6th c. A.D. Hindu art. Gupta period. Fresco

Tomb of the Augurs. Etruscan art
Tomb of the Augurs. 6th c. BC. ITALY. Tarquinia. Necropolis of Monterozzi. Tomb of The Augurs. The Augurs. Etruscan art. Fresco

Pre-Columbian America. Zapotec culture
RIVERA, Diego (1886-1957). Zapotec Civilization. 1947. Mural Pre-Hispanic Mexico and Colony in the corridor of the north wall. Detail

Fresco, wall, paintings, from, Pompeii, depicting, Roman, foods, including, game, birds, mushrooms, eels, Museo, Archaeologico, Nazionale, Napoli, collection, includi, history, historical, 10804526

LUINI, Bernardino (1480-1532). Nativity of Mary. 1520-1523. Birth of the Virgin. Frescoe transferred to canvas. Renaissance art. Fresco. ITALY. Milan. Pinacotheca of Brera. Proc: ITALY. Milan

The Tomb of the Dancing Women. Etruscan art. Fresco. Proc: ITALY. Ruvo di Puglia. Necropolis of Via dei Cappuccini

Wedding of Lord Lovat and Hon Laura Lister
The wedding of Lord Lovat (Brigadier-General Simon Joseph Fraser, 14th Lord Lovat, 1871-1933) and the Hon Laura Lister (daughter of Thomas Lister, 4th Baron Ribblesdale) at the Brompton Oratory

Burberry advert: Winter sport and fashion, Switzerland
An advertisement for Burberry in Winter sport in Switzerland:a special supplement to The Sphere, depicting life snd sport in the winter playground of Europe

Italy. Florence. Dome of Brunelleschi. Last Judgement, by Gi
Italy. Florence. Last Judgement frescoes of the Dome of Brunelleschi, by Giorgio Vasari (1511-1574) and Zuccari (1572-1579). Detail. Hell

Fresco of Adam and Eve. Barbera del Valles. Catalonia. Spain
Romanesque art. 12th c. Church of Saint Mary. Fresco of Adam and Eve. Barbera del Valles. Catalonia. Spain

Roman art. Italy. Fresco. Basket of figs. 1st century AD. Oplontis. Campania. Italy

Turkey. Church of the Buckle (Tokali Kilise). Frescoes
Turkey. Church of the Buckle (Tokali Kilise). Interior decorated with frescoes. 10th-11th centuries. Goreme Valley. Cappadocia

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